Alisa Sergeyevna Tishchenko ( rus, Алиса Сергеевна Тищенко, , ɐˈlʲisə ˈtʲiɕːɪnkə; born 17 February 2004) is a Russian group

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. She is the silver medalist and group Olympic runner-up at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, along with

Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Ilyinichna Bliznyuk ( rus, Анастасия Ильинична Близнюк, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə blʲɪˈzʲnʲuk; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics ...

Anastasia Maksimova Anastasia Ivanovna Maksimova ( rus, Анастасия Ивановна Максимова, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə mɐˈksʲiməvə; born 27 June 1991) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympics Group champion, the 2015 Wor ...

Angelina Shkatova Angelina Anatolyevna Shkatova ( rus, Ангелина Анатольевна Шкатова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈʂkatəvə; born 25 January 2001) is Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 European Group All-around champion and the ...

and

Anastasia Tatareva Anastasia Alekseyevna Tatareva ( rus, Анастасия Алексеевна Татарева, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə tɐˈtarʲɪvə; born 19 July 1997) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is 2016 Olympics Group all-around champion, a th ...

. She is the 2019 World Junior Group All-Around, Team, 5 Hoops and 5 Ribbons champion and the 2019 European Junior Group All-Around, Team, 5 Hoops and 5 Ribbons champion.

Career

Junior

Alisa was born in

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on 17 February 2004. Her mother encouraged her to begin training

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at age 6. In 2017, she moved to Moscow and was invited to train with junior national team. She was a member of Russian Group that competed at the 2019 World Junior Championships in

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taking the gold medal scoring a total of (49.550) ahead of

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(45.100) and

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(43.100) in the all-around competition. They also won gold medals in team competition and in both apparatus finals.

Senior

In 2020, Alisa was added to Russian National Reserve Team as a senior group gymnast. Reserve group took part in Grand Prix

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in February. Alisa and her teammates placed second in Group All-Around competition after

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and took gold medals in both Apparatus Finals. In October,

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organized 2nd Online Tournament in

, where reserve group won in Group All-Around competition (69.050) in front of

. In 2021, Alisa was admitted to compete in the 2021 Moscow Grand Prix, as a member of the official Russian group, where Russia placed first in the All round ahead of

. On July 5, 2021, the Russian Federation announced that Alisa Tishchenko was selected to represent Russia at the

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, (leaving out Karina Metelkova and Olya Karaseva) as a member of the Russian group formed by

and

, and that the Russian group will compete in the Moscow 2021 World Challenge Cup on July 9-11. In the Moscow Cup, the Russian group took gold in all aspects ahead of Japan and all possible golds in the apparatus finals ahead of Uzbekistan. From August 7-8, the Russian group competed in the

where they achieved the silver medal in the general competition behind

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, and it is the first time in 25 years that

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has lost the first place and the gold medal in the Olympic Games. From October 29-31, Alisa competed in the

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, in

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, along with the ensemble formed by Anastasia Bliznyuk,

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and

, where the Russian ensemble won gold in the entire contest, for the fifth time in a row, ahead of

and

. They also won team gold (along with singles

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and

Arina Averina Arina Alekseyevna Averina (russian: Арина Алексеевна Аверина; born 13 August 1998) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a 2020 Summer Olympics finalist, a two-time (2017, 2019) world all-around silver medalist, ...

), gold in the 5-ball final and silver (behind Italy) in the mixed final.

Detailed Olympic results

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tishchenko, Alisa Russian rhythmic gymnasts 2004 births Living people Sportspeople from Krasnodar Medalists at the Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Russia Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes